Mission:
To reduce disaster risk of vulnerable communities by promoting mitigation efforts, through learning and action.
Vision:
Create a safer world through combined disaster mitigation efforts of various humanitarian stakeholders.
Focus:
Promoting adoption and practice of disaster mitigation through:
• Partnership with the poorest within disaster vulnerable communities
• Integrating water, food, habitat and livelihood security
• Capacity building of multiple humanitarian stakeholders
• Synergy between traditional and modern risk reduction strategies
• Capturing and disseminating lessons and innovative ideas
• Promoting use of humanitarian standards in disaster response
• Providing timely and targeted relief in a sustainable manner
Evolving Structure:
AIDMI was founded after the repeated 1987-89 droughts in Gujarat. It has eversince, evolved from a project to an autonomous organisation (1995). During its evolutionary journey AIDMI has developed four security programmes and eleven activity centers.
Sector Security Programmes
• Water Security
• Habitat Security
• Food Security
• Livelihood Security
Activity Centres
1. Action Review and Research Services (ARRS),
2. Bhuj Reconstruction Project (BRP),
3. Building Peace and Protection (BPP),
4. AIDMI- AMA Joint Research Centre (AIDMI-AMA),
5. Emergency Food Security Network (EFSN),
6. Emergency Health Unit (EHU),
7. Learning Resources (LR),
8. Livelihood Relief Fund (LRF),
9. Organisational Resources (OR),
10. Sphere Resource Centre (SRC),
11. Water Security Programme (WSP)
Partners:
AIDMI works with multiple stakeholders across geographical space and areas of specialisation. AIDMI has forged a relationship of partnership with local communities in Ahmedabad, Kheda, Kutch, Nadiad, Patan, Surat, Surendranagar and Vadodara districts of Gujarat; local communities in Chennai, Villupuram, Cuddalore and Nagapattinum districts of Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry; Community Based Organisations; Civil Society Organisations in the states of Assam, Orissa, and Jammu and Kashmir; NGOs; INGOs; Government Agencies; Indian, European and American Universities; and Stakeholder Networks.
AIDMI Team:
AIDMI is a young professional activity unit, build and run by a flexible, multi disciplinary, multi sectoral, multi cultural, multi experienced and committed team of technicians, professional, field practitioners and volunteers (community and international). Its 63-member team is drawn from fields as diverse as journalism, social work, architecture, engineering, urban planning, economics, finance, information technology, business management, political science and disaster management. |
